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The University of Delaware presents Objects of Desire: Recent Gifts to the University Museums in the University Gallery in Old College from January 10, 2006 through March 24, 2006. This exhibition is comprised primarily of works from the personal collection formed by Philadelphian Margaret Litt and also works from the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts and from other individual donors who have given works to the University Museums during the past two years.
Most of these works are now exhibited for the first time. Reinforcing the strengths of the University Museums collection of works on paper by American artists, they include drawings by Thomas Sully and John Singer Sargent, four portraits by Violet Oakley, and two personal letters with watercolor sketches by Andrew Wyeth. The Abstract Expressionist Dorothy Dehner is represented in the show by two etchings and two watercolors. A highlight of the exhibition is a rare oil painting by Grant Wood, Château in Périgueux, a product of his 1920s travels in France.
This show not only celebrates recent gifts to the University Museum, it also demonstrates how these donations can be used by students both in interpretive study and conservation. Students were intimately involved in every stage of accessioning the collection, including taking an inventory, cataloguing and transferring the works, researching and writing the wall text and catalogue entries, performing conservation as needed, and organizing the exhibition itself and related programming.
Please CLICK HERE for images from the Margaret Litt Collection.
Click HERE to view a Quicktime video tour of the original exhibition
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